$470m CCTV contract award didn’t follow due process —BPP


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ABUJA—THE Bureau of Public Procurement, BPP, yesterday said the $470 million contract awarded by the late President Musa Yar’Adua’s administration for the procurement and installation of Close Circuit Television, CCTV, in Lagos and Abuja did not follow due process.
The Director General of BPP, Emeka Ezeh, disclosed this at an investigative hearing by the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee set up by the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, to unravel the circumstances of the award of the contract and the failure of ZTE Corporation to complete the contract.
The BPP Director-General told the  Ahmed Yerima-led committee that his office did not issue certificate of no objection in the award.
But the former DG of NigComSat, Ahmed Rufa’i, said award of the contract was through a presidential approval, contending that it was not all issues, especially those that had to do with the security of the country that should pass through the BPP due to its implications.
Rufa’i told the committee that there was no problem with the award of the project which he said was completed but that the government did not provide money for the operational cost for it to function.
He added  that in the Procurement Act, the President had discretionary powers to approve procurement without going through the BPP.
Chinese telecom giant, ZTE, in its submission, denied any wrong doing in the execution of the National Public Security Communication System, NPSCS, project.




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